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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1890.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
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THE STYLES ESTABLISHED
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Dress Goods business, with purchases from the fashion centres of America, as well as
direct importations of Parisian styles, insures the ladies of Columbus that they are to
have the latest.
NEW CARPETS AND RUGS
just received in novel and exquisite colorings. Velvet Rugs in all sizes and at exceed
ingly low prices.
Smyrna Rugs cheaper than was ever heard of before.
BEAUTIFUL ANGORA HAIR RUGS AT $3.50
_n white, brown and grey. "
An Squares in all sizes in Wool and Smyrna, ranging in price from $3 to 333. We
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SPECIAL SALE OF SHIRTS.
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OUR SILVER DOLLAR SHIRT FOR 50 CENTS.
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Loom, same quality sold often at 31, our price this week only 50 cents.
GOOD BARGAINS IN FINE TOWELS.
We have a lot of handsome Towels slightly soiled. We offer at a reduced price.
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NEW TORCHONS. NEW WHITE GOODS.
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OSWICHEE.
SOMETHING ABOUT A LOCALITY FAMOUS
FOR ITS BEAUTY AN'D HOSPITALITY.
Oswichee, Ala., SeptembeVVlO. —
Many readers of the Enquirer-
Sun are not without a grateful sense of
the pleasures attending a visit to Os-
wicflee, a neighborhood distinguished by
its exceptional features, from a period even
antedating the services of the distinguished
Indian agent, Col. Crowell. This gentle
man, so capable in his special sphere,
afterwards member of Congress and gifted
by force of intellect and commanding per
son, was not strictly a resident of Oswichee
proper; though the proximity at Fort
Mitchell of his palatial dwelling and large
river plantation, rendered his influence
dominant in contiguous territory from
which the Indian had not yet wholly gone.
Many ideal colonies, in which the
■“country gentleman” might play his part,
have been matters of vision only, or upon
trial have given place to disappointment.
Oswichee has had a “gift of continuance,”
now for more than a half century, having
been time-tested by war with the red man
and the greater unpleasantness with
our brother pale faces, while peace
has had its vicissitudes of prosperity
and adversity, removals and deaths, and
(what may be called) the continued “wear
and tear” of the soil whose original fertil
ity was the prime attraction. If Oswichee
is not traversed by a railroad, it cannot
ye be said to “live off the road,” since
not only does the Chattahoochee flow on
forever upon the one side, but the Mobile
and Girard road approaches within four
miles, while the highway known to more
than a generation of travelers as the
“Eufaula road” passes through its midst.
The community could not have so long
maintained its historic good name without
that spirit of accord which is one of its
distinctive features. And the proof of
this good feeling becomes a pleas
ant prepossession to the visitor
in the two churches, the one
Methodist, the other Baptist, adjacent
to each other, and situated upon
the main road, in the ample and beautiful
grove generously donated for the purpose
by one of the most beloved members of
the community, the late Hon. F. A.
Nisbet. The tendency, none too small
before the war and only since augmented,
to seek the city as a place of residence
and employment, was not without some
measure of palliation, by reason of certain
advantages which the city was presumed
to monopolize. To be a “country doctor,”
country preacher or country school teacher
was to put one’s self at comparative dis
count, the community catching the con
tagion and fleeing for refuge (as it were) in
quest of a better article in the city. It
has ever been the exceptional distinction
of Oswichee not to be thus
tempted to flee; the resident physician,
Dr. Allen, now worthily filling the delicate
office of successor to the accomplished Dr.
Whitaker; the pastors in succession of the
respective churches, including the present
incumbents, Rev. B. C. Glenn and Rev.
W. B. Carter, having been men of educa
tion and consecrated zeal; while, if the
schoolmaster may not be strictly said to be
“abroad” in this particular Oswichee
land, the schoolmistress, Mrs. Bettie Nis
bet, certainly is, and that, too, without
coming from “abroad,” but “to the manner
born,” and happy is many a pupil in hav
ing been" brought under her instruction.
The community bespeaks its own charac
ter in such names as those of Alexander,
Nisbet, Whitaker, Pitts, Stratford, Patter
son, McMillan, Fitzsimmons, Allen, Isbell,
O'Neill, Saunders, Bradley, Howard,
Mitchell, Chitwood, Nuckols, McLendon,
Gardiner and Moore; while if the
name of Macon is withheld it
is only to designate more specifically one
of the rarest spirits of earth, the venerable
woman who is “Aunt Betsy” in the affec
tions and admiration of a whole commun
ity; herself (now in her eighty-fifth year)
the yet efficient head of four generations
under one roof; her facile pen, in beauty
of bandwriting, yet devoted to genial cor
respondence, while upon occasion it finds
vent in genuine poetry; music not yet out
of her soul; her reading by no means lim
ited to the book of books, but having re
cently read with eagerness the life and
times of two of her heroes, Bishop Pierce
and Grady, while no speech from Gordon
is allowed to pass unobserved; and if she
is not permitted to try her hand at any
manner of cooking, it is not from want of
willingness or capacity by long
experience, but that the “generations’
combine to forbid, when she finds
recourse among her flowers
or makes the needle fly in some device of
knitting or article of handiwork. -Her life
is verily a “Thing of Beauty.” In con
clusion it might be said that the “feast of
fat things” to be found upon the tables of
these hospitable people was the “manifest
token” of prosperity; but somehow it is
ever their way of being thus known of all
comers; while it is true that the corn crop
is an a .'erage one, and the cotton not with
out good prospect, despite unusual degree
of rust and recent excess of rain. In view
of the disproportion, amid so many con
tiguous plantations, of the colored to the
white race, it is not the least of the dis
tinctive good features of Oswichee that
harmony in this respect is part of the good
spirit of the community. A. C. F.
A LITTLE REVOLUTION IN’ SWITZERLAND.
Berne, September 11.—A revolution
has broken out in the Canton of Ticino,
owing to the difference of opinion regard
ing the revision of the constitution. Three
members of the Cantonal Government
have been imprisoned; one has been killed
with a revolver, and others have fled. The
Federal Government has sent two battal
ions to the scene.
TRAIN’ WRECKERS ARRESTED.
Utica, N. Y., September 11.—Two
Pinkerton detectives this morning arrested
Cain and Buell, who were wanted for
wrecking the train near Albany, and left
for Albany at 11:20 a. m. with their pris
oners.
AKD HIS STRIKERS APPLAUD—SO QUO-
BUSI—THE BAUM CIRCUS—CAUCUS
PROGRAM—A EAIN’Y DAY
ALL AROUKUC
W as hington, September 11.—[Special.]
—When Thomas Brackett Reed mounted
his throne this morning the Republican
members greeted him with a round of ap
plause. The Democrats looked on as
silent partners. The fact was demon
strated very early that less than a quorum
of members were on hand to receive the
Speaker, and soon, on motion of McKin
ley, the body adjourned. It is said to be
the purpose of the Republicans to adjourn
from day to day, and see this dramatic
procedure impress upon absent members
the necessity of coming on to Washington
and finishing up the business of the ses
sion. Reed, of course, jees the necessity
of having his Republicans here to pass the
tariff bill, and it is believed that the sug
gestion of adjournment from day to day is
his.
THE CAUCUS PROGRAM.
The Republican senators held a caucus
this morning and agreed to list certain
bills for passage at this session. The Con
ger lard bill was not of the number, but
the Forney bankrupt bill was.
MORE CHOICE LANGUAGE.
The Raum circus committee held an
other meeting today with the single result
that Mr. Cooper, of Indiana, called Mr.
Flick, one of the committee, a coward, and
Flick retorted by telling Cooper he was a
dirty dog. No blows were exchanged, and
during a subsequent recess the pipe of
peace was smoked, everybody shook hands
and a complete reconciliation took place.
The Associated Press will cover the de
tails if its agent does his duty-
THE tariff bill.
The tariff bill was enrolled in the Sen
ate today so as to include all amendments,
and Ingalls, the presiding officer, signed it
and it was sent over to the House. Tomor
row, when Thomas Brackett Reed gets his
people together, it can be called up and
sent to Major McKinley’s committee on
ways and means for identification.
N’O ADJOURNMENT AT PRESENT.
The Republican Senatorial caucus did
not mention adjournment today save in
an incidental way. It was the opinion
that until the tariff was out of the
way no exact date would be fixed.
Outside of the committee room the opin
ion was freely expressed that after the
tariff bill was disposed of a quorum of the
members could not be held.
RAINY ALL AROUND.
The oniy news from Harrison is that he
has had a rainy day. So has Thomas B.
Reed, and all of Washington, and the
country at large suffered a very rainy spell
some time back in November, ’88.
E. P. S.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, September 11.—As
Speaker Reed entered the chamber this
morning at a few moments before noon,
he received a round of applause from the
Republican side of the House and from
spectators in the galleries, but no other
demonstration was made.
After prayer O’Ferrall, of Virginia,
made the point of no quorum
present. The Speaker, without
taking note, of the point, stated
that the question was one ordering the
previous question on approving the journal
of Tuesday’s proceeding, and directed the
Clerk to call the roll.
On ordering the previous question the
vote stood, yeas 87, nays 44—no quorum,
and on motion of McKinley (amidst Dem
ocratic applause), the House, at 12:35, ad
journed.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington. September 11.—On mo
tion of Plumb the conference report on
the railroad land forfeiture bill was taken
up. The main proposition in the report
is contained in the first section, as follows:
That there is hereby forfeited to the
United States, and the United States
hereby resumes title thereto, all lands
heretofore granted to any State, or to any
corporation, to aid in the construction of
railroads, opposite to and coterminious
with the position of any such railroad
not now completed and in operation, for
he construction or benefit of which such
lands were granted, and all such lands are
declared to be a part of the public domain;
provided, that this act shall not be con
strued as forfeiting the rights of way or
station grounds of any railroad company
heretofore granted.
-Morgan opposed the report a3 a log
rolling scheme, gotten up for the
benefit of all land grant roads.
He • said that, while the first sec
tion professed to be forfeiture,
all other sections related to separate rail
roads and exempted them from the opera
tion of the forfeiture section, or else se
cured to them certain pecuniary advan
tages. It could be scarcely said that there
was any land forfeited by the bill to the
Government in consequence of the failure
of railroads to comply with the terms of
the original grants. The most that could
be said of it was that a few small railroads
that had not got friends enough in the two
Houses to stand up for them and hold
up their hands, were to be crucified for
the sake of glossing over and varnishing
the false pretense of a general forfeiture.
After speaking for over four hours, Mor
gan said that he knew that the questions
which he had been discussing were going
to their grave in the passage of the bill,
but that he had desired to give them a
decent burial. He had wished to erect a
headstone over the graves of the rights of
tlie-people on the line of the Northern Pa
cific, so that the historic record might be
read hereafter. He had wanted to remind
he people of the United States of the vast
robbery perpetrated by that com
pany, and which was now sanctioned,
wound up and brought to a
conclusion by the bill. He knew what the
vote would be. He knew when the Repub
licans came in with a one-sided report,
Democrats refusing to sign it, what the re
sult would be. Whenever the bill was
passed, the forfeiture of the Northern Pa
cific railroad lands would be dead and
buried, and nothing more would be heard
about it.
Without finishing his speech Morgan
yielded for a motion to adjourn at 3:30
o'clock.
ported back to the House with the com
mittee’s recommendations not later
than. Monday or' Tuesday. The
committee’s recommendation,* it
predicted, will be that the
House agree to such of the Senate amend
ments as are merely verbal and do not
change the rates, and that as respects
those amendments which do increase or
reduce the rates in the bill as sent to the
Senate, the House non-concur and agree
to the conference asked by the Senate.
Meanwhile, although the bill is not yet in
the conference, the Republican members
of the committee are quietly examining
the Senate amendments with a view to
expediting their disposition in the confer
ence.
THE GRANT MONUMENT.
THE PLAN ACCEPTED BUT THE MONEY
WANTING.
New York, September 11—The execu
tive committee of the Grant Monument
Association decided today that the plan
for the monument submitted by Architect
John H. Duncan, of 237 Broadway, was
the best of five plans they had to consider
and they formally recommended its ac
ceptance by the association, subject to
whatever change or modification the
committee and the architect might
agree on. Hamilton~ Fish was
the one member of the committee
who was not present. The meeting was
held in Knox’s flat at 240 Fifth avenue.
Gen. C. A. T. Collis presided. The five
designs, which had been turned face to the
waif to prevent anyone from seeing them,
were turned around and each was ex
amined, while Secretary Greener read the
author’s description of it. Then there was
a discussion over the merits of each. This
lasted nearly an hour, and by that time
the committee was unanimous in its
opinion that'the Duncan design was the
best.
An incomplete description of the Duncan
plan was obtained with difficulty by The
Republic reporter. The general shape pro
vided for is a pile of granite or marble,
100 feet square and rising 100 feet, whether
as a cube or as a truncated pyramid could
not be ascertained. On top of it will be a
dome 70 feet high. The ornamentation
will be simple and the architecture se
verely Doric. The dome will be sur
mounted by sculptured figures, the
nature of which will be determined by
the committee, the sculptor and the
architect later on. In the design there
are the statues of four of the generals who
were on Gen. Grant’s staff. Thirty feet
below the top of the dome there will be a
row of windows. There will be four en
trances at the base. The main entrance
will be a gateless portico, an addition to
the general design. In front of this en
trance there .will be a colossal equestrian
statue of Gen. Grant. The crypt will be
85 feet by 75, open to the top of the dome.
One hundred and thirty feet from the
base there will be an immense gallery,
where visitors may go. The row of win
dows mentioned will open on this gallery.
A MEMORIAL HALL.
TheTnain room in the crypt will be a
memorial hall, where more than 1,000
persons can gather. On one side is an
apsir and an opening through the floor.
In this opening will be placed a granite
sarcophagus for the bodies of Gen. and
Mrs. Grant. The floor of the crypt will be
raised several feet and a marble stairway
will lead up to it. There will be another
marble stairway inside the crypt
leading to the gallery. This
stairway winds upward part of the way,
and part of the way it is straight. It is
planned so as to fill space that can be oc
cupied no other way. There are little
nooks and corners in the base of the crypt,
where battle flags and trophies may be
displayed. There are a dozen places at
the base where sculptured work may
be placed, if the committee wants
it. There are other places for statues
and the like ail the way up the interior to
the dome and on and around the gallery in
the dome, but if the committee wants any
ornamentation in that line it. will have to
pay extra for it. The cost of the structure,
including no sculptured work except the
statue of* Grant in front of the main en
trance. is to be 3303.000. This does not
even include the statues to surmount the
dome.
BARRUNDIA’S ASSASSINATION.
PALMETTO DEMOCRACY-
THE COLUMBIA CONTENTION
NOMINATES A STATE TICKET,
reaffirms the party PLATFORM—DE
NOHNCES REPUBLICAN MISRULE.
DEMANDS STATE REFORMS.
AND CONDEMNS INDE-
PENDENTISM.
THE GAUTEMALAN AUTHORITIES MAKE
AN EXCULPATORY STATEMENT.
City of Mexico (via Galveston), Sep
tember 11.—According to the advices re
ceived here of the shooting of Gen. Bar-
rundia, on board the American steamship
Acapulco, at St. Jose de Guatemala, Capt.
Pitts, of the Acapulco, has made a declara
tion which the Gautemalan authorities
claim completely justifies their action.
Mizner, the American Minister, the au
thorities say, was consulted as an act of
courtesy only. The dispatch above men
tioned further says that when Capt.
Toriello and Capt. Pitts read to Barrundia
the order for his delivery to the Gautema
lan authorities, Barrundia asked perwi-.-
sion to change his clothes, which was
granted. Turning away. Barrundia sud
denly grasped two revolvers anl fired on
Toriello, Pitts and a policeman, who in re
turn fired on Barrundia, killing him.
Capt. Pitts had taken the precaution of
ordering the passengers to withdraw,
otherwise some of them would undoubt
edly have been hurt by the bullets from
Barrundia’s pistols.
A SENATORIAL CAUCUS.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
COURSE OF THE TAEIFF BILL.
Washington, September 11.—The en
rolling clerks of the Senate kept their
work on the tariff bill weil up with each
day's proceedings of the Senate so that
this morning the long bill was ready for
final comparison before being sent over
to the House. The work of examining
the bill for possible errors was completed
shortly after noon and during the day it
will be signed by the President pro tem. J
(Ingalls), and sent to the House when
it "meets tomorrow morning. The
bill with the Senate amendments will,
under the rules of the House,
be referred without special action to the
committee on ways and means, as was
done when the silver bill was referred to
the coinage committee. A meeting of the
ways jmd~means committee will be called
for the earliest date practicable, and, un
less some unexpected obstacle is encoun
tered on the part of the Democratic mem
bers of the committee, the bill will he re-
r.EPUBLICANS TBY TO MAP OUT FUTURE
SENATE BUSINESS.
Washington, September 11.—A^uieus
of Republican Senators was held this
morning, at which Senator Edmunds pre
sided, to arrange the order of business for
the rest of the session. About a dozen
measures were considered to be of suffi
cient importance to warrant them being
placed on the program. They include the
anti-lottery bill, the bankruptcy bill, bills
for the relief of the Supreme Court and
for the establishment of private land courts,
the compound lard bill and the labor
bills recently passed by the House. The
first thing to be considered is the confer
ence report on the land grant forfeiture
bill, now pending before the Senate.
There was some talk of an adjournment,
but nothing definite agreed to respecting
the date. It was the general opinion that
until the tariff bill is finally disposed of a
day for adjournment cannot be fixed.
OPELIKA’S BUDGET.
Opelika, September 11.—[Special.]—
John M. Mooney, a white carpenter, was
killed on the track of the Columbus and
Western, just at the city limits, near
Trammell’s machine shops, some time last
night. Most probably the killing was
done by the south-bound 4:20 passenger,
as the body was not yet cold when found
by Mr. J. P. Hamley at 4 o'clock. Both
legs were cut, or rather crushed, off above
the-knees and one arm below the elbow.
The head was badly crushed and the whole
body terribly mangled. He was a heavy
drinker, and was seen in town late last
night drunk. He leaves a wife and three
children in an almost helpless condition.
An inquest is now being held.
The Opelika Industrial News made its
debut this morning chock full of interest
ing news.
Columbia, S C., September 11.—The
Democratic State convention adjourned
this morning at 6:30 o’clock, after com
pleting the State ticket? which is as fol
lows: For Governor, B. R. Tillman;
Lieutenant-Governor, E. B. Gary; Secre
tary of State, J. E. Tindall; Attorney-
General, H. B. Pope; Treasurer, W. T. C.
Bates; Superintendent of Education, W.
D. Mayfield; Comptroller-General; W. H.
Ellerbe; Adjutant and Inspector-General,
H. L. Farley.
The platform is as follows: The Demo
cratic party of South Carolina in conven
tion assembled hereby reaffirms the plat
form and principles of the National and
State Democratic party, particularly favor
ing the free and unlimited coinage of
silver, an increase of the currency and
the repeal of the internal revenue system.
We denounce the McKinley tariff bill as
unjust to the producers of raw material
and the consumers of the country, and
especially do we condemn the unnecessary
and burdensome increase in the tax on
cotton ties and tin commodities, largely
used by the poorer portion of our people.
The passage of this bill by Congress will
encourage trusts, combines and monopo
lies, evils which have so long oppressed the
people.
We denounce the Lodge force bill as in
iquitous, emanating from minds whose
nefarious purpose is to establish the
supremacy of ignorance over intelligence
in the Southern States, thereby engender
ing race antagonism and sectional animos
ity.
We condemn the action of Speaker Reed
and his followers as a tyrannical and
flagrant degredation of a position intended
only for the true patriot and statesman.
We demand the enactment of laws that
will remove the burdens of the people, re
lieve the existing agricultural depression
and do full and simple justice to the farm
ers and laborers of our country.
We demand the abolition of the national
banks and that legal tender treasury notes
be issued in lieu of national bank notes in
sufficient volume to do the business of the
country on a cash system, and that all
money issued by the Government shall be
legal tender in payment of all debts, both
public and private. We demand that Con
gress pass such laws as shall effectually
prevent the dealing in futures of ali agri
cultural production, prescribing such
stringent methods of procedure in trials as
shall" secure prompt conviction. We de
mand that Congress shall provide for the
taxation of incomes of individuals and the
surplus of corporations, thereby equalizing
the burdens upon the poorer classes.
We demand that our State Legisla
ture shall abolish the ’ Board of
Agriculture, and that the privi
lege tax on fertilizers, and every
thing appertaining to agriculture, or me
chanics, or industrial education, including
agricultural stations, be placed in charge
of the trustees of the Clemson Agricultural
College, and upon said trnstees shall de
volve all the duties now performed by the
present Board of Agriculture,'except the
control of the State phosphate interests.
We demand that the South Carolina
College at Columbia shall be as liberally
supported as the classical and literary de
partment of the South Carolina University.
We demand that the school districts in
the various counties of the State shall be,
as nearly as practicable, square, and of an
area sufficient to allow one white and one
colored free school, separate and distinct,
in each district, and that the school trus
tees be elected by the people.
Wejdemand a rigid economy in public
expenditures, the abolition of useless offi
cers, a reduction of the salaries and fees
of ail officei-3, State and county, to con
form to the increased purchasing power of
money and the decreased ability of the
people to pay taxes; that the public offi
cers be paid in proportion to their labor
and responsibility.
We demand that the Railroad Commis
sion shall be given all the power needed to
protect the rights and interests of the peo
ple without injuring the railroads, and
that the Commissioners be elected by the
people. *
We demand that there shall be a survey
of the States’ phosphate beds and their
classification into three grades, and that a
commission, composed of the Governor,
Comptroller-General and Attorney-Gen
eral, shall control and direct their mining
under rigid rules, each river or phosphate
district being leased at public auction for
a term of three years, after the commis
sion has fixed a minimum royalty accord
ing to their value as shown by their sur
vey.
We demand that a constitutional con-
ventionjlbe called to give us an organic
law framed by our own people. We be
lieve the present law to be a standing
menace to our civilization and to our edu
cational institutions, and that we cannot
obtain any great relief from our burden
some taxes till this is done, and we have
lost faith in the power to amend the pres
ent constitution so that it will answer our
requirements. *
We rely upon the sense of jus
tice and enlightened self-interest of
our fellow-citizens to enforce these de
mands, and we call upon and invite every
citizen who has the interest of his State at
heart to assist n3 in enforcing these needed
reforms.
We condemn any attempt, either by
word, deefl, or unholy alliance with the
enemy, to disrupt the Democratic party of
this State. White supremacy is the bul
wark of our civilization, and can only be
secured by Democratic unity.
THE RESULTS ACCEPTED.
Charleston, S. C., September 11.—
Speaking of the result of the Democratic
State convention in Columbia, the News
and Courier says: Only those who are fa
miliar with the inside history of the recent
campaign are aware of the hard struggle
and constant exercise of patience and vigi
lance that were necessary to avoid an open
and permanent division of the party.
Only those who are admitted to coun
sels of the straightout Democracy can un
derstand the sacrifice of personal prefer
ences and of party pride that was made
for the purpose of holding the party to
gether. But, choosing to submit to wrong
rather than to risk an injury to State,
they waived their rights and, happily for
the State and for the party, the Democ
racy of South Carolina present an
undivided front. There is no
appeal from the action of the Democratic
convention yesterday. Capt. Tillman is
the duly accredited standard-bearer of the
party, and he will be the next Governor of
South Carolina. The News and Courier
will watch his public career with interest.
While censuring him when censure
is just, and criticizing his words
and acts when they deserve to
be criticized, it will not withhold
from him and his works the approval
they shall honestiy deserve. His official
acts will be squared by his public prom
ises, and his administration will be judged
by itself.
from yesterday’s closing prices.^The mar
ket played a game at cross purposes with
Liverpool. That market reported a sharp
decline, and we responded with a consid
erable advance. Well, our boys rather
oversold themselves yesterday. Then they
had studied over night the dark side
of the bureau report, and when it
was seen on the first call tha
onr market was steadier brisk
buying to cover contracts became the rule,
But at three to five points advance the
market relapsed into dullness, and it was
not until toward the close when higher
spot quotations were announced that some
further advance was made, and this ap
peared to be purely manipulation. The
crop figures given yesterday were ffom an
advance sheet of the Financial Chronicle,
Spot cotton was l-16c dearer.
NEWS FROM THE MONEY' CENTER
THE OUTLOOK IN WALL STREET—GREAT
STRINGENCY.
New Y'ork, September 11.—[Special.
The unfavorable crop report published late
yesterday was probably the cause of the
lower prices cabled from London, and both
these influences, combined with a decided
iy stringent money market, led to lower
opening and a weak stock market. Prices
declined continuously from the opening to
the closing, looking at one time as though
a bad break was imminent and showing
every evidence of complete demoralization
on the part of the bulls. Liquidation ran
rampant in all kinds of stocks and bonds
and the better class of stocks did no better
than the trusts and fancies, as each day
goes by without affording any .relief to the
money market, and merchants and bankers
alike commence to realize how serious the
situation is likely to become unless radical
measures are taken to make funds easier,
the less inclined they are to renew ob
ligations and extend credits, and
while we would be the last to
predict a panic, we do not see
how it can be avoided unless money is
made more plentiful and merchants can
supply their wants. The only radical
measure which we can expect is that the
Treasury will again deposit money with
banks, as was the case when Fairchild was
the Secretary, and it has been intimated
today that such a step would be taken.
If it is, the trouble is virtually over, if not,
there is trouble in store for Wall street.
Money loaned at one time at £ per cent,
and interest, being the equivalent of 96
per cent., and loaned down to about 30
late in the day, but the average was prob
ably higher than it has been any time this
year. Cahn & Co,
THE CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CONGRESSMAN EVANS RENOMINATED.
Chattanooga, September 11.—The
Republicans of the Third district today _
unanimously renominated H- C. Evans for \ c
Congress.
THE sun’s COTTON REVIEW.
>7ew York. September 11.—Futures
opened at one to two points advance, clos
ing steady at four to six points advance
REVIEW OF THE SPECULATION IN THE
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKETS.
Chicago, September 11. — Wheat —
There was active trading, the market ex
cited, and closing 4c higher than yester
day. The opening was very unsettled and
reatly excited, with sales varying 4 to lc
in different parts of the crowd, and
ranged from 2 to 3e higher, than yester
day’s closing, followed by a further ad
vance of 1 to lie, or to 106 5-8 for Decem
ber, 110i for May, or some 6j- to 64c above
he inside figures touched Tuesday,
Later the market eased off, declining j
to fc, held firm, and closed' about 4c
higher. The advance was attributed to
the government report. The report, while
expected to show a further decrease,
proved rather a surprise to the most san
guine bulls. It was generally supposed
that spring wheat would show a lower
average, but this was hardly looked for in
winter wheat, and the decline in both
mark an estimated redaction in the total
crop of about 19,000,000 bushels, as com
pared with the August report. The trad
ing was very heavy, both on outside
and local account. Everybody wanted
to buy. The shorts covered fully, with
heavy realizing on top. On the way up,
the offerings were not heavy and the short
interest experienced some difficulty in ex
ecuting their orders without bidding the
market up. Some large lines weredovered.
Corn was active and excited most of the
session, prices changes being sharp and
frequent within lc range. The feel
ing developed was much stronger,
and higher prices ruled on all
futures, due almost exclusively to the
Government report. The first trades were
at lc to 2c advance, without much being
offered, and under active buying from
shorts and for investment, another bulge
of lc immediately followed. There was
free realizing by local longs around 51c,
and prices receeded f c, rallied up l^c, rul
ed steady and closed at a gain of 3| to 4c.
The business was almost entirely in May,
and several large short lines were covered.
Reported cold weather in the Canadian
Northwest helped the advance.
Oats—An active business was transacted
at a decidedly higher raDge of prices. The
firmness and advance in prices was due to
the Government crop report. The first
sales were at |c advance. A further ap
preciation of 1 to l^c was reached, and
after several small fluctuations the market
closed firm at outside figures.
Mess Pork—The trading was active, and
the opening sales were at 10c to 124 ad
vance. A temporary decline of 24c was
submitted to. Later, prices rallied 35c to
40c, and the improvement was moJerate at
the close.
Lard attracted very little attention.
Prices ruled 7$c to 10c higher, and closed
comparatively steady at outside figures.
Short Rib Sides—There was a fair busi
ness. Opening sales were at 5 to 10c ad
vance, followed by a further improvement
of 2£c. Later a reaction of 2£c was sub
mitted to. Near the close prices rallied 5
to 74c, closing at outside figures.
SHEEPSHEAD BAY RACE.
New Y'ork, September 11.—Rain fell
steadily all the afternoon.
First race—Seven furlongs; Worth won,
Druidess second, Reclare third. Time
1:30.
Second race—One mile and a furlong;
Cousin Jeems won, Diablo second, Bene
dictine third. Time 1:55 4-5.
Third race—Seven furlongs; Potomac
won, Strathmeath second, Saliie McClel
land third. Time 1:29 4-5.
Fourth race—One mile and a quarter;
Demath won, Fronterac second, Her High
ness third. Time 2:10 4-5.
Fifth race—One mile and a furlong;
Raymond G won, Eric second. Lotion
third. Time 1:57 1-5.
Rain poured so fast during this race that
the horses could hardly be seen on the
back stretch.
Sixth race—Sweepstakes, 31,000 added,
one mile and three furlongs; Lavinia Belle
won, Philosophy second, Macbeth third.
Time 2:25 2-5.
BASE BALL.
Boston (League)—Boston 2, Philadel
phia 1.
Baltimore — Baltimore - Athletic game
was called on first half of fourth inning.
The score stood — Baltimore 3, Ath
letic 0.
Cincinnati (League)—first game—Cin
cinnati 2, Pittsburg 0.
Second game—Cincinnati 4, Pittsburg 2.
Chicago (League)—first game—Chicago
4, Cleveland 0.
Second game—Chicago 7. Cleveland C.
A FATAL SHOOTING NEAR ASHEVILLE.
Asheville, N. C., September 11.—Dr.
J. E. Rogers was fatally shot by W. F.
Boyd, near Alexander’s, in this county,
last night. Rogers received three balls in
his head and died in forty-five minutes.
The cause of the shooting was a dispute
about the payment of an account due Rog
ers by Boyd. Boyd was brought to this
city this morning and committed to jail.
He asserts that the shooting was done in
self-defense.
TALK IN THE SEVENTH.
THE PUBLIC ARE AGREED AS TO
FELTON’S STATUS.
HE Is AN INDEPENDENT AND EVERETT W
THE NOMINEE—DEATH OF DR.
ROACH—THE SENATO
RIAL MUDDLE.
Atlanta, September 11.—[Special.]—
The fight in the Seventh is assuming
something like a definite character,
though any prediction as to the result
could be no more than personal opinion or
conjecture. The supporters of Felton are
enthusiastic and aggressive. Everett’s
men are confident. But the public have
made up their minds fully to one very im-
portant truth—that Felton, beyond all
cavil and question, is an independent can
didate. Everett is the Democratic nom
inee.
That status of affairs cannot be dis
guised or obscured. I heard scores of
people say there yesterday at the conven
tion: “We voted against Everett in the
primary, and if Felton had been in that
race we would have voted for him in pref
erence to any other man in the district.
But we are for the nominee.”
These people do very little loud talking,
and don’t pet or hurrah any, but they are
the majority, so far as one day’s observa
tion goes.
Felton, in the first place, won’t get the
crowds to hear him that he has had "hereto
fore, because Everett won’t meet him in
joint debate. The Alliance policy is to
hear Everett, and to carefully exclude
themselves from the Felton meetings.
Felton’s combustible enthusiasm can have
little effect, for there will be no material
to be effected by it. The Alliance won’t
disrupt or explode under its influence, be
cause they won’t be near there, but safely
removed from it. At any rate that’s what
the Alliance people say, and the organized
Democratic people, knowing the doctor,
approve fully of the policy.
Here is some mighty interesting talk,
given upon the best authority.
When the Alliance convention was in
session here, Gen. Gordon promised them
that he would, if called upon, stump the
district for the nominees in the Seventh
and Ninth.
Now Everett is going to call upon both
Gordon and Norwood to help him down
Felton.
Gordon will be placed in a peculiar posi
tion. Felton’s success means his own suc
cess in that district; Felton’s defeat means
Gordon’s defeat in the Seventh district.
And yet he cannot consistently refuse to
answer the cali.
The outcome of the matter will be
waited for with considerable interest.
DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN.
Dr. E. J. Roach, a prominent citizen
and for a long while member of the Board
of Education, died here today. He was
one of the builders up of Atlanta's public
school system, and was a useful and public
spirited man.
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
The bolt of the Cobb and Clayton dele
gations from the Senatorial convention,
which occurred at about midnight last
night, and their action in declaring Todd
as the nominee, is of course the talk of
Atlanta today. While nobody expected a
nomination—at least without a long strug-
;le—they did not look for this sort of a
break.
After recognizing Chairman Thomas
for 1613 ballots and in every way possible
giving their endorsement to the regular
actions of the conventions, the Todd men
made a wiidj break, declared themselves
the convention, admitted Toliaferro,
the contesting Fulton county delegate, and
declared Todd the nominee. It was a
square-out bolt, and their action in taking
that step is condemned even by men who
would have been for Todd.
The Fulton county delegates met today
and after reciting the facts, offered to allow
the bolters to come back. Of course they
wont do it, for their bolt was premeditated.
The plan of the Cobb and Clayton Alliance-
men was, to run Todd, whether he was
nominated or not, and it makes little dif
ference to them how his name is put out.
Venable has undoubtedly the prestige of
the regular party organization and Demo
cratic methods at his back, and when the
votes are counted—for both will doubtless
run—he will be found to have been elected
by a big majority. He will be fought here
by a few third party Prohibitionists, but
Will Venable has gone out to win, and
that means that he will win.
THE RIOT IS OYER.
Southampton, September 11. — The
strikers here are more quiet today, and no
riotous demonstrations have been made.
The police authorities have issued an or
der forbidding the holding of processions,
and the leaders of the strikers have prom
ised to see it is obeyed. The mail steamer
Laplata will sail today for the river Plate.
A fresh crew has been engaged to take the
places of the old hands who went out with
the strikers.
THE STRIKE ENDED.
Southampton, September 11.—Com
plete quiet prevails. At a conference of
the strikers this afternoon it was decided
to return to work on the concession offered
a fortnight ago.
“ READY TO SURRENDER.
Sydney, N. S. W., September 11.—
Representatives of the labor unions are
holding a private conference today for the
purpose of deciding upon a basis on which
to apDroach the employers with a view to
an effective settlement of the questions at
issue. In consequence of the strike there
are now 7,000 men out of work in the
Newcastle district. Tiie employers are
confident of winning the fight, but the
strikers show few signs of yielding.
THE STRIKERS WEAKENING.
Melbourne, September 11.—'The strik
ers in the shipping trade are weakening.
The military force which has been guard
ing the property of the employers will be
reduced, as the presence of such large
numbers of troops is considered no longer
necessary. Thirty-two seamen, arrested
yesterday for refusing to work with non
union men, have been released and have
returned to duty.
NEWS OF THE RAIL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST IN RAILROAD
CIRCLES BRIEFLY NOTED.
An accident occurred to a freight train
on the Savannah, Americu3 anl Mont
gomery road, three miles east of Rich
land, 'early yesterday morning. Two
freight cars were derailed and one of them
badly wrecked. No one was injured by
the accident, and the track was soon
cleared.
E. T. Charlton, general passenger agent
of the'c'entral railroad, was asked by a
Savannah News reporter why the Rome
railroad and the Western Railway of Ala
bama had withdrawn from the Southern
Passenger Agents’ Association. Mr.
Charlton replied that the Western Rail
way of Alabama really continues a member
of the association through the Atlanta and
West Point, of which it is a branch. He
^ave 110 reason for the withdrawal of the
Rome railroad, but, as it is only eighteen
miles long, running from Rome to Kings
ton. on the Western and Atlantic, the
Southern Passenger Association is weak
ened little, if any, by its withdrawal.
About 500 men are employed on the
western extension of the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery road from
Louvale, Ga., to Montgomery, Ala. The
grading has been finished from Louvale to
the Chattahoochee river, and the track-
laying on this section will be finished
within thirty days. It has already reached
a point within three miles of Lumpkin.